How can each of our voices contribute to our classroom community?Objective: Students will be able to recognize and share the qualities each individual contributes to our class.1. Starter: Use your clues recorded on your Voice Analyzer sheet last class to match up each mystery author with a new passage.2. Word of the Day #1: nascent3. Writer's Notebook entry #1: Words, words, words (aka Word Art)3. Share our Knight Shields.4. Name challenge: learn each other's names. Congratulations to our winners!For next time: Gather ideas for your page of word art.

How can we grow as readers as we encounter the different voices in American literature?Objective: Students will be able to a) reflect on their status as readers and set goals for individual progress and b) identify features of individual American voices.1. Starter: Complete reading survey.2. Set up our writer's notebooks and portfolios.3. Complete an initial reading status report (notebook p. 81) and set a Term 1 reading goal.4. Analyze the voice in a short narrative passage from an American author. Compare notes with a group of students who read the same passage; then share notes with a group of students who read different passages.5. Exit slip: Recommend a book, explain why you would recommend it, and specify to whom you would recommend it.For next time: Come prepared to present your Knight Shield.

How can we work together to create a great class this year?Objective: Students will be able to identify behaviors that promote our class standards.1. Starter: Complete brainstorming sheet about class standards.2. School pictures.3. Create a group round-robin list of behaviors that will help us live our class standards.4. Exit slip: Signed statement agreeing to abide by the class standards.5. Preview of the rest of this week: introduction to Knight Shield assignment + time to brainstorm.For next time: Bring class materials (notebook & binder) for check-off.

How can English 10H help us "become one"?Objective: Students will be able to use the OPTIC strategy to analyze literature.1. Welcome to class, introductions, and fill out About Me sheets.2. Discuss honors class expectations.3. Watch video and discuss how language connects people.4. Class brainstorm of communication genres and purposes.5. Discuss: What is American literature? and What does it mean to be American?6. What is analysis?7. Complete OPTIC analysis of a paragraph by Anna Quidlen and discuss its ideas and context post-9/11.8. E PLURIBUS UNUM & "Become One"9. Read and discuss the class disclosure document.10. Exit slip: OPTIC analysis sheetFor next time: Return signed disclosure document.